ambulatory care sensitive conditions
The effect of North Carolina free clinics on hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions among the uninsured
... Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues to unfold, the US healthcare system is focused on serving the med- ical needs of the newly insured through the exchanges and expanded Medicaid ...uncompensated care at ...
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Keeping Children Out of Hospitals: Parents’ and Physicians’ Perspectives on How Pediatric Hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Conditions Can Be Avoided
... Both physician groups significantly more often cited parent/patient-related reasons for how the hos- pitalizations could have been avoided, and PCPs were significantly more likely than IAPs to cite this category (71% vs ...
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A six-year descriptive analysis of hospitalisations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions among people born in refugee-source countries
... levels of smoking and alcohol consumption, ade- quate nutrition and physical activity) among people born in refugee-source countries, which may lead to a decreased risk of ACSHs. Although there is emerging evi- dence of ...
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Association between community health center and rural health clinic presence and county level hospitalization rates for ambulatory care sensitive conditions: an analysis across eight US states
... regarding ambulatory care, beyond physician supply and the presence of the types of facility ...their care from a CHC or RHC, and thus could not directly address the role of these institutions in ...
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Underutilized and undertheorized: the use of hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions for assessing the extent to which primary healthcare services are meeting needs in British Columbia First Nation communities
... of care, un- timely access to care, unresponsive care, or differential treatment [15], all of which might result in hACSC and/ or premature ...[primary] care can help to reduce the risks of ...
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Using hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions to measure access to primary health care: an application of spatial structural equation modeling
... health care access, we propose to model twelve adult ACSCs individually and adopt a multivariate ...health care resources, and disease prevalence are associ- ated with a common spatial factor underlying ...
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Preventable hospital admissions among the homeless in California: A retrospective analysis of care for ambulatory care sensitive conditions
... than those admitted for a non-ACSC suggesting greater chronic disease burden among the patients admitted with ACSCs. Collectively, these findings are important because in the general population older persons are more ...
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A systematic review of the magnitude and cause of geographic variation in unplanned hospital admission rates and length of stay for ambulatory care sensitive conditions
... Unplanned admissions place a tremendous strain on healthcare resources worldwide. They account for 67 % of hospital bed days at a cost of £12.5bn per year and have risen by 47 % over the last 15 years in England [1] and ...
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Suitability of current definitions of ambulatory care sensitive conditions for research in emergency department patients: a secondary health data analysis
... A high prevalence of ACSC was seen when the ICD-codes of all definitions were combined (48.1%). Thus, nearly every second hospitalisation of ED patients would be defined as an ACSC case (according to at least one of the ...
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Hospitalization for mental health related ambulatory care sensitive conditions: what are the trends for First Nations in British Columbia?
... health care in nearby communities are typically served by an on-re- serve health ...of care located close by (family phys- ician, rural hospital, or a nursing ...emergency care, screening and ...
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Variation in Hospital Discharges for Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Conditions Among Children
... of conditions within the ACSC composite, imply that the index may be dif- ferentially related to access or utilization of health care between subgroups of ...health care among children. Several ...
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Patient characteristics associated with hospitalisations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in Victoria, Australia
... studies, and is unlikely to have biased our results [72-74]. The 2001 ABS Census of population and Housing was the source of aggregate level data used in this study. The ABS Census of population and Housing is a rich ...
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Trajectory modelling of ambulatory care sensitive conditions in Finland in 1996–2013: assessing the development of equity in primary health care through clustering of geographic areas – an observational retrospective study
... It is likely that the decrease in chronic ACSC rates oc- curred due to nationwide improvements in knowledge, screening, treatment, and follow-ups on chronic diseases [54–56]. This interpretation emphasises that different ...
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A systematic review of evidence on the association between hospitalisation for chronic disease related ambulatory care sensitive conditions and primary health care resourcing
... The results of the search are detailed in Figure 1. The initial search retrieved 1778 articles. On review of their titles 1575 articles were excluded, leaving 203 abstracts. A review of the abstracts resulted in ...
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Hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions and the role of primary care in Italian regions.
... acute conditions and ...chronic conditions and North-eastern regions for acute ...of ambulatory specialist services and standardised hospitalization rates (SHR) for ACS chronic conditions ...
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“Evolution and financial cost of socioeconomic inequalities in ambulatory care sensitive conditions: an ecological study for Portugal, 2000–2014”
... to care, especially for the most disadvantaged popu- lations, are not unique to one context but common across countries ...chronic conditions that contribute notably for ACSC, as was used in previous ...
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Hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions as an indicator of access to primary care and excess of bed supply
... In addition, Korea is in a condition where the impact of hospital beds on ACSC hospitalization can be clearly ex- amined. The health care system in Korea is largely based on a fee-for-service structure. Therefore, ...
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Geographic variations in avoidable hospitalizations in the elderly, in a health system with universal coverage
... for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSH) are an indicator of the use of hospital resources for health problems that could have been prevented, treated or controlled in primary health ...
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In search of quality indicators for Down syndrome healthcare: a scoping review
... of care delivery at communicational and organisa- tional ...supportive care and services, containing only a subcategory of indicators being applicable to medical care: ...preventive care), and ...
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Empirical validation of the “Pediatric Asthma Hospitalization Rate” indicator
... Beyond this consideration, we argue that a problem of misclassification/miscoding could affect the indicator, when only asthma codes are taken into account in pre- school children. The high number of hospital admissions ...
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